Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity

GitLab is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a 0-to-1 team-building mandate: personally recruit 4 exceptional engineers, define how they work, and drive them through a root-cause, shift-left approach to engineering productivity. The role focuses on driving non-linear productivity by finding and fixing the highest-leverage friction points in GitLab's own SDLC. Measured on system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, pipeline latency). Reports to a VP-level engineering leader. Remote US (also Canada, Ireland, UK). Posted 2026-07-13.

• Track record leading small, high-autonomy engineering teams, ideally in developer productivity, CI/CD, platform, or infrastructure reliability, measured on system-level outcomes rather than feature delivery. • Deep comfort with CI/CD and build systems — you understand why pipelines flake, why they're slow, and what actually moves success-rate and latency numbers. • Demonstrated root-cause instinct and a high bar for talent over headcount. • Comfort operating under metrics-driven accountability, including publicly baselining a number and reporting honestly against it. • Strong executive-level communication — this pilot has direct visibility to engineering leadership. • Nice to have: experience with agentic or AI-assisted development workflows; prior experience running a defined-window pilot or 0-to-1 initiative with explicit success criteria.